Bob Greene Quotes

What makes me different as a scientist is that I'm kind of imaginative. The ideas just happen.

True change takes place in the imagination.

Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail

Originality and creativity are nothing but the result of the wise management of combinations. The creative genius combines more rapidly, and with a greater critical sense of what gets tossed out and what gets saved, the same material that the failed genius has to work with.

Creativity is the process that gives life to a new product.

If you want to think new thoughts that are different, then do what creative people do - get the problem reasonably clear and then refuse to look at any answers until you've thought the problem through carefully how you would do it, how you could slightly change the problem to be the correct one.

Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture.

We allow no geniuses around our Studio.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

I've got research, I have my own life experience I can apply, and I have my imagination.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

I think that a lot of people just don't understand creativity.

Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.

What Einstein was able to do was - to use a cliche - think out of the box.

There is no question that creative intelligence comes not through learning things you find in books or histories that have already been written, but by focusing on and giving value to experience as it happens.

Creative thinking - in terms of idea creativity - is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.

I think we always move from imitation to assimilation to innovation, but I can't name you 20 people outside those we've already recognized who ever got to point three: innovation.

The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.

The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.

You can't teach someone to be imaginative.

Historic opportunities are missed because we fixate on what folks say they want. And what folks say they want in business and politics is limited to what they believe is possible.

We can't get any new thinking because we can't get any new thinkers.

A genius is someone with the ability to come up with ideas that are new, surprising and valuable.

Analysis I take to be a scientific procedure. What I do is creative. It doesn't spring from the same part of the mind.